The second grader was excited to start the year but admitted his mom, Kasia, was going to miss her only child being home.

While Adam was dropped off at school, most of the 560 students expected in the school of second, third and fourth graders take the bus and took part in the school's novel system for unloading buses the first week of school.

Staff stand with signs of the teachers' names in the parking lot. The buses line up and then children get off by grade level and line up with their classmates for the walk into school.

"I'm getting a good education from my staff,'' new principal Mary Rose Dymond said as she took part in bus duty. "They really know how it's done."

The school has a new principal, new assistant principal and new office manager, so Dymond said her office secretaries made a tremendous effort to help her get ready for the new school year.